Indigenous Enslavement and Incarceration in North American History

Studies of indigenous slavery have exploded in the past decade, changing not only the ways we think about slavery, but also race, citizenship, and nation. This conference intends to bring together some of this path-breaking new work about indigenous bondage and to trace its effects on and within Native American communities in the US and Canada. It does so self-consciously in its expressed focus on slavery and incarceration. Such an emphasis, we hope, extends the exciting work done in early American history with contemporary investigations into incarceration and prison studies.